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Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-22
The beautiful Jones' Trac,

Fronting on Pico street. Lots for sale by
Vignes & McGregor, 1876 North Main street.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-22

Are You Making
Money? If not go to LOrdsburg.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-22
The Grain Markets.

Silver bars-Per cent. discount, 25@26
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-22
The Stock Market,

SAN Francisco, ,september21.-The follow.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-05-25
Rebuked.

A woman scorned is a fury, the poet
tells US; but her rage has no such re-
polling effect as q woman's scorn. He
must be q hardened man who endures
it unmoved. When Bureoyne's army
surrendered, they were marched to
Cambridge, Mass, where the soldiers
were confined in a camp, but the Off
GERS We're permitted, on parole, to seek
quarters for themselves.
Some of them used to frequent Rich
ardson's tavern at Watertown, on ac-
count OF the cockpit kept on the other
side OF the road. This cruel sport was
INDUCED in by the baser sort of Amer
leans, and by some ofthe aristocratic
Englishmen who were paroled prison
ers of war
Several OF them, hearing of a poor
old woman who raised fine chickens,
sought to purchase from her two no.
BILE cocks, wfaich showed signs OF being
game.
You shall have neither of them, 2
replied the Old woman, Strengthening
herself by her erutch. i never saw
anything so blood THIRSTY as you Brit
ishers be: if you can be fighting and
cutting other peoples throats, you
you must be setting two harmless
creatures to kill one another
Go along! I've heard OF your cruel
doings at Watertown, cutting off the
feathers and the poor creatures comb
and gills. and putting on iron things
upon { b sir legs. Go along, say!''
Raising her crutch, she drove the
dismayed officers off her premises,
who were glad to retreat before an
angry wonlan's scorn. enforced by her
crutch-
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-05-25
Missionary Efforts Wasted.

Paris Dispatch to New York World
DR.. Oscar LEM, who has just re-
turned from prolonged tour OF ex-
ploratlon in Africa undert aiken in be-
half OF the king Of the Belgians, has
included in his report to the latter
some very interesting remarks con
corning missionary work in Africa.
They are, however, far from encour-
aging. He renders full justice to the
good intentions of the missionaries
and to the motives which impel the
Scottish and London societies to
send them out, but he asserts
that they waste large sums of
money for very small results. Ne
groes who are taught by them to read
and write mostly become unfit for
any manual occupation. They con-
slider themselves as good as the white
man, think it undignifed to toll and
when not engaged in holdidg large and
noisy prayer. meetings, at which every
man wants to take his turnat preach
ing they roam about begging and take
it very i'll if they cannot live altogether
on dcles from their white fellow Chris
tians. The European factories have
learned to beware of these men and
will not give them employment. So
most OF them end by relapsing into
barbarism and vagabondage, their
last state being worse than their first,
as the renegade native convert almost
always becomes criminal.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-05-25
DiscOuragIng.

A young man who went to the West
filed with enthusiasm and a desire to
grow up with the country" surpris-
ed his friends by returning home after
an absence of but three weeks.
He said that while he was out land
hunting in what he thought was the
garden-spot OF America, he came
across a boarded-up claim shanty.
On the boards nailed across the door
he found this inscription. which ex-
planned his departure for the East:
Fore miles from a nay Der
Sixteen miles from a postofis
Twenty five miles from raleroad
A hundred and s.tey from timber
$50 feet from water
There's no place like home We've
gone East to spend the winter with
my wife's folks.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-05-25
Harness Shop.

under the management of Hermann
peussmann, who will take pleasure i'll
waiting upon all customersin want of
anything in the harness 6 saddlery
line.
Slim. s. 1st N. Strs. New Ulm, MINI.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
Saved From seasickness.

From the New York Tribune
The popular but rather eccentric J..
Hyatt Smith used to tell with great
glee how he escaped seasickness on the
English Channel. He suffered from
this malady on the Atlantic, the Med
iterranean, the Adriatic, the German
Ocean-everywhere, in fact; and he ex-
pected like experience on the Chan
mel. On the steamer, however, he got
into earnest conversation with a
hard-headed Scotchman, who made q
vigorous defense of the Southern Con.
federacy. Mr.. Smith, who was an ar
dent supporter of the Union, became
greatly animated in controverting the
Scotchman's argument and, as he
said, forgot all about being seasick.
In narrating this incident he would
add: ''Now, if you want to escape
seasickness, can tell you OF sure
preventive: Get into an argument
with stubborn old Scotchmen."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
A Long Line.

"I've heard all the stories of long
telegraph circuits" said a postal tele-
graph operator at Buffalo, ''and in
my time I've worked some pretty long
ones myself, but I never heard of any
thing that equaled one that we had
this afternoon. Our people are build
ing g. line from the terminus of the
Canadian Pacific to Frisco, and I
heard Vice President Henry Rosener
talking with President Chandler in his
Office in New York city. Mr.. Rosener
was at New Westminster, which is on
the Pacific coast just opposite Van
couver Island, so they were talking
across the continent. By that route
it is about three thousand miles, for
the wire was made up via Buffalo,
Toronto, and the Canadian Pacific.
Every few minutes | could hear Medi-
cine Hat chip in, and all along the cir
cult the operators were 'on.' It was
wonder to everybody, and the IN
struments were working as clear as O.
bell on the long copper wire"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
A Bohemian Saint.
Cor. San Francisco Chronicle

Cor. San Francisco Chronicle
Nepomucene is the patron of the
Bohcmians. The story OF his martyr
dom varies somewhat from the mon
stroue relation of those who were
crucified head downward, beheaded,
shot with arrows, thrown to wild
beasts, or put to death by any other
of the cheerful processes that the late
heather applied to the early Christian
The wife Of the Emperor Wenceslas
had done something very wicked,
which she revealed to Nepomucene in
heconfessional. The emperor asked
him what it was, but he said he had
promised not to tell, and res
olutely refused to answer. So he
was thrown from the bridge into the
river at q point which is still indicated,
and as the stream happens there to
be little deeper than elsewhere, he
was drowned. In due time his body
came to the surface, and five stars
formed an aureola about his head. In
his statues and pictures these five
stars are repeated till they become
tiresome. Lights burn constantly be-
fore his image. Pilgrims come from
Moravia, and even from Hungary, to
pay their honors to the saint who re-
fused to reveal the secrets of the con-
fessional-to the man who knew, but
had promised not to tell.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
------
Expecting the Idol.

A Chinese of some influence had g.
sick son. He made costly offerings to
a certain god with a view to his child 8
recovery, but all was in vain, the child
died. Hereupon the father filed a bill
in court, charging the god with g.
breach of contract. The case was
duly tried. The idol was brought into
court. The father pleaded that he had
done everything that the ritual had
required of him, in order to propitiate
the deity, but through some strange
perversity or inability the god had
failed to perform his part of the con-
tract. The god had no way of rebuff
ting the evidence. Judgment was &C.
cordingly given against him, and he
was forthwith expelled the prov
ince!"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12

elderly woman, who was trembling
and changing color so oddly, was only
half uttered, and quite unheard by
the demoiselle to whom it was adj
dressed. In turning round to sweep
malestically from the boudoir, Linda
found herself face to face with Herbert
Torrens.
In pity for the confusion that robbed
her OF all her ordinary self satisfaction,
Herbert behaved as if he had not been
a grieved and disgusted auditor of all
that had passed.
He introduced both thayouugladies
to the mother, and Mrs. Torrens, fol-
lowing her sons example, plunged into
long and animated description of
her journey to town on the preceding
day. AS Flo also recovered herself
sufficiently to appear interested and
put q few questions, the ball of con-
versation was kept up until Mr.. Weston
came into the room.
Before Linda had finished asking
| herself how much or how little her
lover had overheard, or whether she
need fear the influence of such g. dowdy
parsonage as his mother, Herbert had
seized an opportunity, and both were
saying their adleux.
"We shall see you again in the even
ing?" queried tho beauty, almost
timidly.,
81 think not. You may have other
engagements, and significant glance
at the programme and bouquet re-
vealed that another of her falsehoods
had been detected.
Flo Weston led such an uncomfort-
able life at Kensington when Herbert
Torrens resigned all pretensions to
her cousins hand, that she was very
glad to curtall her visit, and 60 back
to her duties as eldest daughter in the
large family OF q country curate.
But she had not been home long
when she was invited to Clifton to
spend a few weeks with Mrs. Torrens,
who smilipgly showed her, attached
to her chatelaine, the shilling-it was
almost her only one-compassionate
ly bestowed on the widow Thompson.
The weeks became months, for Mrs
Torrens went abroad in the autumn
to try some German baths, and begged
Flo to accompany her. They went
under the escort of Herbert, and to
the immense indignation of the beauty,
who is still unmarried, their return to
England was speedily followed by O.
wedding. Need We say whose?-
Ladies Journal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12

The Girls That Are Wanted.
The girls that are wanted are good girls
Good from the hta to the lips
Pure as the lily is white and pure.
From its heart to its sweet leaf tips.
The girls that are wanted are home girls
Girls that are mothers right hand,
That fathers and brothers can trust to,
And the little ones understand.
Girls that are fair on the hearthstone,
And pleasant when nobody sees;
Kind and sweet to their own folk,
Ready and anxious to please
The girls that are wanted are wise girls
That know what to do and to say;
That drive with a smile or a soft word
The wrath OF the household away.
The girls that are wanted are girls of sense,
Whom ashton can never deceive;
Who can follow whatever is pretty,
And dare, what is silly, to leave.
The girls that are wanted are careful girls,
Who count what thing will cost;
Who use with prudent, generous hand,
But see that nothing is lost.
The girls that are wanted are girls with hearts;
They are wanted for mothers and wives;
Wanted to cradle in loving arms,
The strongest and frailest of lives.
The clever, the witty the brilliant girls,
They are very few, understand;
But, oh for the wise, loving home girls
There's constant and steady demand.
-Nel0 York Ledger
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12

they are shipped all lover this country,
and even from Italy to this continent.
and has Improperly of remaining lust
moist enough for the bees to feed upon
readily. The preparation of it is sim
pie enough, for 1T is COM
pound of crushed sugar and pure
liquid honey. The sugar is kneaded
into the honey until it is of the con-
slstency OF a stiff dough. In this
shape it can be placed over the combs
or between them to some extent, and
as near the cluster as practicable.
Bees IN box hives may be fed very
readily with such food and with per-
fectly safe results. The most handy
method is to turn the hives upside
down and thrust the candy in their
layers down between the combs, close
to the bees. They may remain in this
position until spring if we'll protected
from rain and snow, the mouth of hive
being first we'll stuffed with old bags or
carpet. Weak swarms in such hives
will do better in q good cellar, as indi-
Gated IN g. previous article. Avoid
using anything like cheap molasses, or
even brown sugar for feeding bees.
The editor of Gleanings and Bee Gull
ture says of it, GAS brown sugar often
owes it's color and taste to q property
called caramel l consider it very un-
safe for winter feed" Molasses is even
worse. It is hardly necessary to add
that after placing the eGood Candy
over the clustering bees, blankets or
chaff cushions should be placed over
the whole and auaputhipo Y,oodo co,7o
and tight to prevent the loss of heat
generated by them. If they once be-
come chilled through, no amount OF
feed can save the colony. In chilled
condition they cannot reach or even
eat their food, and hence must perish.
Practical Farmer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
FOREFATHERS' DAY.

9, pile the beams upon the tray
Ana exc the parched corn;
New England s sons will take to-day
For blowing of their horn.
"On Plymouth Rock was Freedoms BIRTH
Their orators will say;
Good old New England runs the earth
Upon Forefathers' Day.
New Euglsnd's bread, New England's bread
b every plate it lies;
O, food of basalt, food of lead,
O. n ghtmare-nursing pies
IF Freedom with the Mayhower's crew
Sail d into Plymouth Bay,
Dyspepsia was q Pilgrim, too,
Upon Forefatners' Day.
About the Mayfower's precious freight
Flows much sweet zap of speech:
s'Fraught with the pillars of State
She came to Plymouth Beach"
Nav, fraught with sturdy schismatics
All bound to have their way
But give them taffy and not kicks
Upon Forefathers' Day.
They civilized the Injun men
With powder and with ball;
They drove out lots of settlers when
There was room enough fer all.
believe as we,'' was their command,
''Or Gehenna'll be to pay"
Twas grim old gang that came to land
Upon Forefathers' Day.
Their life was narrow, but twas free,
Among the forest stumps;
The Bible was their library,
And they kicked out ali Mugwumps.
So for those ancient BrowniSt guys,
Cry hip hip, hip, hooray,
For Plymouth. Pilgrims, primness, pies
Upon Foretathers' Day.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
Laying Dust in Mines.
From the Boston Budget.


A well-known mining engineer has
brought into notice the successful use
of watering the floors of deep mines
to allay the dust and thus prevent
explosions. A slight dampness, such
as prevails in shallow mines at all
times. is in his opinion, sufficient to lay
the dust effectively; and the system
attic watering of deep mines has been
introduced at the Llwynfria Colliery
and at the Standard Colliery. The
water can either be brought into the
galleries by tanks or by pipes from a
reservoir above ground. A pressure
of fifty pounds to the square inch is
considered sufficient at the Standard
Colliery. The water not only puri6es
the air, but robs it of the infammable
coal dust which is SO dangerous a
factor in great explosions.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
Notes.

Notes.
SOME dairymen save the last fourth
of the milk from the cow in a separate
vessel, and pour it directly into a
cream jar.
IT is never good policy to divide
farm in small fields, for it is waste of
land, waste of time, and oppressive in
crease of fencing that becomes q
burdensome tax in construction and
maintenance.
STEADY application is what counts
in any business, especially in farming,
for in this employment q day or an
hour wasted is usually more or less g.
loss of time, for it is an opportunity
gone.
PARKER EARLE thinks there has
been as yet no absolute over-produc-
ton of good fruit, but the cause of low
prices is detective Distribution. When
fruit, by cheap and rapid transporta-
ton, is brought within the reach of
everybody, there will be none TOO
much.
EVERYBODY likes g. new idea and
here is one. Cut the clover hay up
fine and mix it with the meal for the
hogs. Let it soak twenty-four hours.
The hogs will eat it and it is both
cheap and good for them. With this
kind of diet there would be less sick
ness and more pigs.
THERE are few markets in which
enough difference is made in price of
hay on account of quality. Excepting
those who feed fancy horses, few men
are particular enough what they give
to their teams. Hay full ofweeds and
stained withall sells within 50 or So
per ton as high as that which is bright
and good. The higher priced is gener-
ally the cheapest, even leaving out the
comfort and satisfaction of the stock
eating it. There is only one exception
to this rule. Glover hay is always low
in price. Even when well cured it u.s.
ually sells low. Much clover, however,
is badly stained and often musty, as it
is the kind of hay most difficult to cure
we'll.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
Took His Chances.
From the Wateryille one, sentin,

From the Waterville (Me.) Sentinel.
This anecdote about himself was
told by the late DR.. Magoon: When
the doctor was student at Colby his
supply OF money was very small. One
Saturday he started for Pishon's Fer
ry. intending to preach on Sunday,
Without a cent in his pocket. He
walked as far as the ferry, but how to
get across was the problem. "The
ferryman was waiting, and to hesitate
was to be lost" said the doctor. $50
| stepped into the boat and sat down
with apparent unconcern. "Where are
you going?" asked the ferryman. 600
ing across to PREACH" / replied. AS
We touched the other shore / asked
how much the fare was. Nothing"
was the answer, and | took my bun
dleand went on my way rejoicing.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
The influence of cheerful Homes.

Lie 1nliucIce u OiI0OTlul I1OIhcSs
See to it, then, that their homes
compete with public places in their
attractiveness. Open your blinds by
day and light bright fires at night.
illuminate your homes. Hang pic
lures upon the walls. Put books and
newspapers on your tables. Have
music and entertaining games. Ban
ish demons and dullnees and apathy
that have so long ruled in your house
hold, and bring in mirth and good
cheer. Invent occupations for your
sons. Stimulate their ambitions in
worthy directions. While you make
home their delight, fill them with
higher purposes than mere pleasure.
Whether they shall pass happy boy
hood and enter upon manhood with
refined tastes and noble ambitions de-
ponds on you. Believe it possible
that, with exertion and right means, g.
mother may have more control over
the destiny of her boys than any other
influence whatever.-Omaha Repub-
Hcan
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
Under Difficulties.

Counting is sometimes carried on in
the far West under great difficulties
In Bozeman, M. IT,, recently, Mr..
Story pulled his gun on a rancher
named McCann because the latter per-
sisted in paying his attentions to
Story's daughter. But the gun was
old and unserviceable. McCann drew
also, when Story's wife, the girls
mother, opened on the rancher with a
shotgun, but her aim was bad. The
city marshal then disarmed the two
and arrested them ALL
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
Reviving Fruit Trees.

A noted New York state farmer, S.
ID. Pratt, writes the American Insti-
tute Farmers Club about the care of
fruit trees, as follows: "Remem bering
Prof. Liebig's theory that when veg
9table is burned the part which came
from the air in the process of it's
growth returns to the atmosphere,
and the part which came from the
ground is reduced to ashes, / came
to the conclusion that ashes would be
beneficial when applied to the roots of
the trees. They were standing in the
soil strongly inclined to clap, with a
turf around them that had not been
removed for several years After
pruning them properly, removing every
indication of worms, ETC., and wash
ing the body and branches with soap
suds, I began operations below,
first removing the turf two feet
around the tree, then with a gar
den pick the ground was loos-
ened from six to twelve inches in depth,
taking care not to iniure the larger
roots. Twenty or thirty quarts of
large cavity, shaped like a saucer,
with the tree standing in the center.
About one pint of unleached ashes
was eprinkled about the tree and upon
this chip manure was placed, nearly
filling the cavity. Another pint OF
ashes was sprinkled upon the fertilizer,
which was gently pressed down, and
the hole covered with the loose dirt
taken from the cavity, leaving the
surface nearly as it was. excepting the
turf. A young orchard was treated
in g. similar way. The effect
was wonderful. Plum trees that
were going to the bad re-
vived. Peach trees that had presented
small and shriveled leaves threw out
luxuriant foliage, and cherry trees
gave fruit larger and fairer than ever
before"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
PERSONAL POINTERS.

zen. MILES Is expected to visit BOs-
ton shortly.
PAULINE HALL has $4,000 invest
ed in diamonds.
MUNKACsY is painting q portrait of
Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer.
MAYOR GRACE, of New York, recon-
mends the teaching OF type-writing in
the public schools.
JOHN HAMPDEN, of London, edits
and publishes magazine in which he
tries to demonstrate that the earth Is
fat.
PRESIDENT DWIGHT, of Yale, has sent
O. Hartford made toboggan as q
Christmas gift to the Dean of Canter-
bury.
THE late Mrs. Carolina A. Wood, of
Cambridge, Mass, left $4,000 to
Wellesley College and $35 ,OOOto Bates
College.
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA writes so
small hand that not single COM
positor's name appears on his list of
friends.
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND, after
debating for some ht IRIS to g. stenog-
rapher, found out that the fellow
was insane.
Poor progress is reported in the
| movement for a monument in Paris
to Gustave Haubert, the apostle Of
"naturalism."
THE friends of the late Sojourner
Truth, OF Battle Creek, Mich, are
| making an effort to erect monument
over her grave.
MARSHAL IMAGINATION, formerly pres
ident of the French Republic, now 78
| years old, has returned to Paris. He
leads very quiet life.
The late DR.. William Frazer Tolmie,
| OF Victoria, 3. c., was the senior white
resident of the Northwest Territory.
He had lived there fifty three years.
JAY GOULD is reported to be now O.
constant attender of Rev Dr. John A.
PaxtOn's Presbyterian Church in New
York, and pays $1,000 year for his
pew.
The new governor of Montana, ex-
Gov. Leslie, of Kentucky, was chiefly
distinguished during his gubernatorial
J career for the number of pardons he
granted.
! CYRUS W. FIELD, accordingto Bos-
| ton paper, gave Garfield memorial
window to Williams College on which
Fields name appeared in larger letters
than Garfeld's.
WITHIN the last twenty years
George Washington Chiids, of Phila-
delpnia, has presented over 200 big
and valuable Bibles to churches,
schools and societies.
The carriage built for the triumphal
entry-which never took place-of
the Comte de Chambord into Paris is
now the state carriage of the Queen of
Greece. She paid SIS 900 for it.
BISHOP MACHEBoEUF, of Denver, has
recently celebrated the fftieth ami
versary of his ordination as a priest.
He has been at work in the Rocky
Mountains for thirty-fve years.
THE late Gen. W. G. Harding, of the
famous Belle Meade stock farm in
Kentucky, was a descendant of an an
Gent Huguenot family. and born sew
enty EIGHT years ago, In q log cabin
still standing near the fine mansion in
which he ended his days.
MRS. Writ SYKES, widow of the late
consul to Cardiff, but known to the
world better as "Olive Logan" is one
of the latest additions to Washing
toms permanent residents. Mrs.
| Sykes has been occupying q house on
Capitol Hill since September, but in
the spring will build q house in the
northwest end OF the city.